Category: Asides

What do you do with all the grand churches in Europe as the number of religiously inclined people are dwindling? In Maastricht, 13th-century Dominican church has been converted into a bookshop! “Happily, books and churches have always gone together: in the beginning, as St John tells us, was the Word; the word was, in time,…

This is hilarious: â€œSure,â€ I say, â€œJâ€¦ can do Australian, American, French and English accents. Sometimes all in the same sentence. Imagine how close the other world leaders will feel to you. Birds of a feather and all that.â€

Noam Chomsky eloquently discusses “The Most Wanted List”: “.. they and their apologists regarded Africans much as we do the ants we crush while walking down a street. We are aware that it is likely to happen (if we bother to think about it), but we do not intend to kill them because they are…

The grand solution to all our problems lies in the human race comprehending the concept of time. I can prove it, if only I could spare the time. Fracturing time may have been the biggest human error of all times. Could anyone not agree with Plautus when he condemned that “wretch who first . ….